i love the idea of having a little printer, like a few inches wide at most. but theyre all thermal arent they. so you print something and 5 years later it's blank. did you ever even print it at all??? also i learnt at one point that a lot of thermal paper has something incredibly fucked in it but i forget what. something probably made by 3M which they call like PrintBrite(TM) and you look it up and its a chemical called 6-6-6-asbestocyanide

i dont really understand the point of rust but maybe thats just because i never make mistakes. when i do programming im like. time to write a MMORPG. server and client, one executable. i write it directly in JVM bytecode. (for portability) and i get out my stenographic 0123456789ABCDEF keypad. I set my stopwatch: 8,736 hours. then I begin typing. i finish exactly 5 minutes and 73 milliseconds early. upload to steam and immediately hit number 1 top seller - never need to run the program really

keep coming back to the realization that tux is like one of the best character designs of all time. something about his facial expression. he looks so Head Empty. and the way his feet are faced towards the viewer really emphasizes how he's just sitting on his ass and not doing much of anything. all of that combined with the bold, high-contrast black-and-white with the bright yellow-orange accents? it just screams Yeah Sure It Doesnt Work. What Am I Gonna Do About It? Nothin :)

linux is made by boiling linseed oil. the resulting mixture, or 'kernel', is rolled flat, with additives and dyes added to produce various different decorative patterns and finishes called 'distros'

i think the privatization and financialization of everyday services and goods has done more than anything in culture to make society decohere. interacting with the world on basically any level now largely consists of attempting to outwit giant systems designed to exploit you. from the perspective of an individual, there is virtually no consistent expectation of any duty of care, moral responsibility, or trust evident in daily life, so there's little to suggest you value those qualities either

the last 3 times i've seen a word and not known what the word means, and wanted to look it up quickly, i've typed it into a search engine (duckduckgo or google) and just got a load of results for a more popular word that isn't the word i looked for. even if i type define:word it still gets replaced with the more common word. i think for one of them i got a patronizing LLM response too. i swear the web has never felt this useless before

i know theres snap and flatpak but i always forget which one is "The Bad One" so i just avoid either forever. you can tell me which one it is now, but i will NOT remember. i will avoid both of them. i will avoid both of them, forever. Thank you

PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code

if you put an AI generated “”””hero image”””” at the top of your article, i WILL assume that the entirety of the text below it was written not by you, but by a large language model

every time i see something i want to buy that i don't actually need, i keep looking at more and more expensive versions of the thing, and convincing myself that the cheap ones would be no good, until the only one i would be willing to buy is completely out of my price range, so i don't buy anything at all. i've saved a lot of money this way

very dramatic footage and music currently on the bbc

if you want a vision of the future, imagine this guy hitting Print Screen on your keyboard, forever

average photo on my phone looks like this

there's been almost twenty years of work on optimizing javascript engines with JIT and complex heuristic-based GC and a wealth of feature-rich profiling and analysis tools and validation and testing frameworks for deployment and integration and syntax improvements and functional and higher-order primitives and serverside transpiled code. and it's all enabled some amazing new stuff, for example github now takes 10 seconds to display a plain text file, and you cant search properly anymore

thinkin about this Moon Cat

me: so whats the prognosis

doctor: well. lets put it this way. you're full of microplastics and teflon. like everyone in your generation youve been exposed to so much BPA, talc asbestos, aspartame, and volatile organic IKEA offgassing compounds that you have, to use the medical term, transformed, into what we could call, to use the medical term, a 'cryptid'. morally you're on team nature, as culpable as the weather. and your lifestyle needs improvement. you should get into e-sports

simply knowing that "MIDI baud rate is exactly twice the PAL horizontal blanking frequency" is an infohazard that may tempt you into actions that have the potential to destroy your vintage CRT displays and thousands of dollars of synthesiser equipment

portrait orientation TVs are gonna be the big new thing i reckon

- popular with the under-25s
- ideal for watching tiktoks which will be the only form of media in the future
- save space on the narrow walls of your tiny 2020s-style apartment
- touch-screen version can be used to order mcdonalds

i dreamt last night that there was a "new version of ls" which included a flag which would list each file's "gender". and there were a LOT of different ones and people were arguing about what all the abbreviations meant because it wasn't consistent across distributions